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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cuem:
I've tried heating but it doesn't work!!! Here's what I do

1- Remove sim,battery,sd card

2- Heat it above the sim card zone ( 5 cm above from phone ) for around 2minutes

3- Put batt back in with Vol Down + Home + Power

4- I still see the lflashing at&t logo, can't acess download mode nor recovery

ADB doesn't reconize my phone despite having the i9000 usb driver installed

Odin3 One-click download made this happen =(

Now ADB and Odin doesn't see my phone

When I plug my phone in my computer, nothing is detected and the screen just go black, no response no battery charging.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ofulanof:
How about 300k ohm homemade jig?

It works 100% according to testers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5sHPPnins
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sparksltd:
Voodoo bricked my phone! plz help!

Iv installed Voodoo via Odin but now its stuck in recovery mode! I dont know what to do! Please Please help me!:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasdaq:
thanks it worked!! big thank you!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Voodoo really sucks and now your phone is broken. You have to buy a new one...

Well not all true. You phone is not bricked and you should go into the voodoo tread you did download the voodoo file from. They can help you.....

Sent from GT-I9000 jpo. My own kernel for z4mod and with 342MB Ram
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
download odin flash back to JH2 or whatever stock ROM your phone came with

then wipe everything (data/cache)

then Odin or CW ROM a STABLE version of Voodoo

don't use the beta ones
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frandromeda:
What do you mean your phone is stuck in recovery mode? Like any time you boot up, it goes straight there? Or is it really what it sounds like: your phone is in recovery and you don't know how to proceed from this point?

voodoo installs clockworkmod recovery, right? I hope this doesn't insult your intelligence, but you do know that the middle physical button is no longer active in cwm? You have to use the back button to navigate the menu (i.e. the right capacitive button...) So if you use the volume keys to select "reboot phone" and push the back button, do you get out?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dentimarius:
Mine works fine using JIG method. I used it every time when I want to enter in download mode.

My phone was bricked, because, in a huge mistake, a flashed a Captivate rom in a Galaxy S phone. My phone doesn't boot, get stuck in a white screen with AT&T logo. All the phone in similar situation was solved using JIG method.

Read very carefully, maybe you connected the wrong pins. I did this mistake first time, too.... Try to get the corect pins from the pictures... I don't have the time for searching the link now, but read everything about JIG on this forum.

Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sankar24:
I did manage to get out of a similar situation on my galaxy i9000 . I do not know whether it will apply to you but no harm in trying . I was trying out some firmware when I lost pwer and although I was able to reflash, I would get the same notification on 3e recovery mode. I tried wipe reset and everything it had to offer , but on reboot would go in to the splash screen and keep vibrating . I was on froyo 2.2 version xxjpp . Then I read in samfirmware . com that to flash this firmware we had to go back to 2.1 xwjm8 , (I felt it should be xxjm8) and flash with repartition selected and 512 pit .I did that ,with download mode and odin 1.3 and It seemed as if I was back to square one when the screen got stuck at splash level but when I took out the battery and switched on it booted in to 2.1 firmware. I went in to download mode again and flashed 803 pit with 2.2 firmware with repartition unselected and I am back to 2.2 froyo again and happy . I know this is not the best of tutorials , but if it helps any one , I shall be thrilled.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iacopo91:
[PROBLEM] Total Brick, interntional Galaxy S

Today i decided to upgrade to BUJP8, i followed the guide, in the main thread here, in xda developers. In the thread was written that you should in Odin select 512.pit, without CODE, MODEM and CSC, and press Start (before proceed to flash BUJP8):

-Now my phone doesn't boot up (no bootloader logo, no recovery, no download), nothing happen;

-Is the warranty my only and last source?

-If the warranty is my only source, what i have to say to samsung in order to get my phone back working? (i'm thinking that samsung don't repair my phone because it's my fault)

Simply extreme sad of my dead galaxy S, any help is appreciated! Thanks:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwsk:
Wait, you flashed a pit file with no modem/code/csc? i think that's the equivalent of formatting your pc... might want to try hair dryer/ test jig method but it might not work :/

what was your battery life like when you flashed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aCx85:
Bricked Phone

If I Bricked the phone am I screwed? cant go into recovery or download?

Time to send back to bell?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beards:
Have you seen this topic.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davywavy:
[Q] Galaxy S bricked after Virgin Australia Official FroyoUpdate

Hope some one can help, I think my phone is bricked after upgrading to Virgins Official Froyo and I dont have 3 button reset.

I updated via official kies, my phone had one click lag fix removed and was unrooted.

My Phone is stuck in an endless loop and I keep getting these force close error messages which keep returning after I have tapped the force close button;

The Application Logs Provider (process com.sec.android.provider.logsprovider) has stopped unexpectedly. Please Try again

The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Is there any way I can get my phone going again or am I screwed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tragusman:
Maybe try kies again? isnt there an option for repair in there somewhere?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davywavy:
I had a look and unfortunately it doesnt, the only thing it has is windows driver recovery feature.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tragusman:
http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-788537.html

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-772750.html

Mate i know this sounds drastic but is safe and have seen and heard of this working.

Hairdryer to heat up then WITH BATTERY OUT, HOLD VOL UP + HOME BUTTON + POWER BUTTON, then insert battery, and let go of the power button once your phone turns on . . .

I can safely tell you your phone definatly not bricked if the above doesnt work then its gunna have to be the jig.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davywavy:
At the bottom of the thread the OP says the whole thing is just a joke
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Honestly... It sounds to me like u are experiencing what MANY of us Canadians (not me... Knock on wood) have experienced and that is a corrupted internal sd card although you say that your phone is booting... Is that correct?

Perhaps the hairdryer trick may be a good choice to try in your case or the jig as mentioned as well...

Can you check to see if your phone is recognizing your sd card?

Also... Did you do a factory reset after the update? Sometimes left over system data from 2.1 messes things up in 2.2.

Id try that first.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] au_stevo:
I had the same problems, I tried a few things to fix the problem but not sure which one fixed it, one of them did. Basically, go into recovery mode and format the phone/reset everything through there. If that still doesn't work, go into download mode, download odin and flash 2.1 firmware, then ontop of that flash 2.2 again. I'm with virgin too, but waiting for Cyanogen to come out.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
[Q] How to fix this? / possible brick?

[Q] How to fix this? / possible brick?

Okay, so here is my situation:

Bothered by the sluggishness of my sgs i flashed over Tayutama's jpm based rom. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=808763

I loved it, but as it was getting more and more outdated, i figured i wanted to try an alternative rom. Scared by the tales of bricking my phone when some kind of lagfix was still enabled, i tried a factory reset. Turns out this was a rather stupid thing to do, as it since then would not boot and remain at the galaxy S image. (white font).

Desperate as i was then tried to go into recovery and i could get into cwm, and downloadmode.

I then tried looking at the FAQ and did the steps neccesarily to flash to a stock firmware.

All went well until 25% of the flash when it turned out to tell me this:

Now when booting it's playing the startup sound that comes with a stock firmware, and then remaining at the flashing S logo all the time. My pc doesn't recognize the phone at this moment (it shows up as a mobile cd drive for whatever reason), so i can't connect to put an update.zip on the internal SD card.

Could anybody please offer me some help with this to get it fixed again?

I can still enter 3e recovery and downloadmode.

Greetings and thanks in advance.

LVM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
From what I understand your just supposed to flash it under PDA.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
i'm now entering download mode and trying to flash only the PDA with the same settings. Thanks for the suggestion, let's wait for the result :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
it has successfully flashed the firmware, though when rebooting it still remains at the startup glowing logo, sometimes briefly vibrating.

I tried another factory reset in recovery, but the booting problem remains.

Anyone please?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Try flashing again with repartition off
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aCx85:
yep .

thing is like a reatrd I flashed a capative rom on my I9000 with odin3 since there was a problem and tried to use the 1 click odin3 fix.... but firgured out it was for Capative only.

So know all i have is a lopping AT & T screen and Black screen.

Nothing more.

Going to try the homemade Jig
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
It still gives the same result. when entering recoverymode it tells me the following exactly:

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl10

(Invalid argument)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed.

I'm starting to wonder if there's a way out for this :S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davywavy:
My phone does not have 3br
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davywavy:
If you read the very last post of this thread you will see that the hair dryer trick was a joke, its not actually a real fix.

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-772750.html
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Had this error myself in the past, flashed jp7 with 512 pit and repartition. JP7 comes with the modem and csc files also, then flashed it again without repartition and it worked. I think when you flash jpm you need to flash jm8 first. Someone else may correct me on this but I'm sure that if you only have the pda file you shouldn't repartition?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
(Thanks for all people that are helping here, gives me great motivation)

I just found this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770623

The endposter also speaks of flashing jm8, but when flashed a rom from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780867 it gives me a complete black phone, only downloadmode is accesible...

hmm, reflashed the jpm again and we're back at the reboot problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Just checked Samfirmware and it says the following:

$ I9000XXJPM

Flashing way I9000XXJPM: First I9000XWJM8 with RE-Partition and 512.pit. Than I9000XXJPM without RE-Partion use 803.pit

So yep, looks like you need to go for JM8 first. So either go for that or download jp7, I know that sorted me out when I had the same problem
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Thanks, i flashed jm8 and it didn't work, then went back to jpm (also not working, but at least there i could get into recovery).

should i go for jp7 straightaway or flash the nonworking jm8 and then the jp7?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Ok, not sure why going from jm8 to jpm isn't working, so I'd probably go straight to jp7. Make sure you have the files in the correct place "code - Pda" "Phone - Modem" and the csc in the csc. Repartition with pit 512. When I first done this it didn't work, so I then reflashed without repartition or pit and it worked fine, not sure why but have done it several times now and it works every time, good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davywavy:
After trying again this morning I discovered that the force closures had slowed down enough for me to surf to menu>settings>privacy>factory data reset

This fixed my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Thanks for your support again, this helps me enormously...

Anyhow, I downloaded the jp7 version from samfirmwares.com, and it gives me two files:

CODE_I9000XFJP7.tar.md5

MODEM_I9000XXJPP.tar.md5

The first one is the PDA file right? Second is the modem obviously, but should there be another file? (as i read from your previous post?)

a third party csc file for jp7?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Glad ur all fixed up. Just so u know... The hairdryer trick IS REAL... Many others have used it and it does work...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
* doublepost
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Maybe I got the csc from somewhere else, you should find it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=844459

CSC_I9000OXXJP7.tar is the file you need
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
okay, when flashing with repartition + 512 pit, odin stood still at 'SET PARTITION'

Now, flashing the 3 files without repartition and without pit, it has removed the previously dbdata error at the recovery, it updated it's media and finally rebooted before asking me MY PINCODE!

You are amazing... thanks for the persistance in coming back to a thread to help me so swiftly like this! My phone is again in working condition!

Now, i would like to try to flash to that Ultimate rom(Or is Doc's minimalistic rom better?), as it seems the wisest choice i believe at the moment.

Do you foresee any trouble ahead flashing it? Or do you have a better suggestion for me?

Thanks again!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Your more than welcome, I know that scary feeling when you think you've screwed your phone up, that's the fun of flashing though, breaking it so you can fix it!! Well done mate, glad I could help :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Yeah amazingly I just ago saw that truly bricked screen when the jp7 flash went wrong, it felt really Arrrrgh-ish!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
I use spikes oc rom, I have tried most of the others including doc's rom. I am running cyanogen beta at the moment, but tomorrow I'm flashing back to spikes. Whenever I flash a different custom rom I always back up with titanium and then restore my phone to jp7. jp7 has 3e recovery so you'll need to flash clockwork mod or 2e recovery before you can run an unsigned rom. If you're going to start flashing different roms make sure you back up your efs folder to your pc
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Well after all this, my phone is completely empty, so this is not a real issue for me atm, im already glad that it's working again.

Though, before i started working on it today i did a backup with titanium backup. should i have backed up with titanium backup and afterwards copied my EFS folder to my pc?

Why are you restoring to jp7? it's impossible to go from the one custom rom to another custom rom when you want to switch?

And why should i necessarily flash cwm, as it's downloadable in the market, right? or am i mixing stuff up right now?

(lot's of questions :P)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
You will need root to back up your efs folder, doesn't matter if you do a titanium backup or not, but backing up your efs folder is really important, it holds stuff about your phone like your imei number.

I restore to jp7 because sometimes the roms don't seem to install properly over top of other ones. So I have got in the habit of always factory resetting my phone to jp7 before flashing a custom rom, not saying it's necesary but it always works for me.

I've always flashed clockworkmod, didn't know you could download it. I've just assumed that because it's a kernel it needed flashing because recovery 3e doesn't allow installation of files that aren't signed. Could be wrong though!

I'm no expert on all this, just do what works for me!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Hmm, ok.

So, i see my phone after today all of a sudden is 'un-rooted'.

I got in trouble today because of 'factory resetting' when I was @ Tayutama's rom. Is doing so on a stock rom also causing problems? or is it safe for me to do now? (note: i manually removed any update.zip from my phone previously, don't know if that was to be harmful.)

In other words, how can i make sure my phone goes back to jp7 when factory resetting it after flashing a custom rom?

But about CWM, you are right, ROM manager autoflashes it. so in essential, its the same idea.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
When rooting the phone (using one click root), it tells me that the signature of the update.zip file is incorrect, thus it won't update.

i believe it's some kind of protection, how do you root a clean jp7?

i put on hardcore's latest kernel and installed superuser. cwm is working now.

thanks for a good day!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Yup your phones now stock, unrooted and the 3e recover is stopping anything unsigned from being installed, try this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=788108

Pick the download at the very bottom, jp6 v 1.17, this will root your phone and put you back on recovery 2e. Flash it through odin in the pda section, no repartition

To get the phone back to jp7 after flashing custom roms just do what you did earlier, flash the 3 jp7 files through odin and your back to stock jp7
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Factory resetting should not be a problem, just make sure you disable any lagfixes before you flash a different rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deja-wu:
[Q] Bricked phone ?

I flashed in docrom v1.3 rom 2 days ago and also doc theme v2 and everything went smooth and worked well.

Today the phone suddenly jumped back to the first that says Samsung Galaxy S and it seems to restart all the time. I can get it to download mode for about 5 seconds then it jumps back to the start Samsung Galaxy S i9000.

What has happened :S Is it totally bricked and is it possible to leave it back to the store like that?

Please help

//Kristoffer
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
you solved all my problems today, hopefully lots of people with this issue will check out this thread.

I still have one little thing to ask:

When i install the 'ultimate' rom, it doesn't include dutch locale / swype etc.

Do you think applying a patch from this thread might work?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8623367&postcount=2

It's a completely different rom, so it depends on what it actually patches, but i figured it might work?

still, common sense says 'stay away from that'. (It's not for no reason that people ask for dutch locale in that ultamaterom-thread)

how do you look into this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
I cant really see how you could patch files from that rom to ultimate rom. Try this out http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=817703 its the docs rom and i see it has a dutch swype add on. Ultimate rom is essentially docs rom with a few themes and bits and pieces added on
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Yeah, I didn't really mean patching the same files, but maybe there was a way to extract dutch locale from it and implement it onto another rom.

Looking at doc's rom, I like that better as i feel the support there is amazing, only i like the look of ultimate way more + the fact that it's so speedy.

Maybe i'd just wait for a bugfree ultimate rom, or maybe i will choose for the reliable docrom... haven't made up my mind yet :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Check your Power Button to see if its not stuck :D

Happened for my friends phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
Think you'll find that the ultimate rom is no quicker than the docs rom, because it is the docs rom! They may have changed the kernel, but i ran the docs rom for a couple of days with super optimized kernel over clocked to 1.2 and it ran really well. I have been following webstar1 and his ultimate rom and i would stay away, imho the guy is just on an ego trip and is taking far too much credit for repackaging other peoples stuff and i dont think this is good for the community
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LentoViolentoMan:
Indeed, I have had the same concerns regarding that rom.

Is there a way to run those themes onto doc's rom?

I never know when to flash, because I feel like, I want to 'get it over with', as flashing still feels dangerous and I'm inexperienced in succesfully restoring a backup of my apps.

With that in mind, there still are so many updates coming that it might be wise to wait. (unless the updates are patches)

and: Super optimized kernel VS Speedmod(hardcore) kernel? I thought hardcore's kernel was no.1 to choose from, but super optimized is a better choice?

edit: have read about the super optimized kernel and it does more with the voltages, worth trying.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagrom78:
I think harcore's kernel is fantastic, but I like playing with overclocking so I normally fiddle around with the so kernel. I use appmonster pro and titanium backup pro (2 apps well worth paying for the pro versions), always back up before flashing then it's a simple one click process in titanium to restore all your contacts and apps.

Be warned though, once you start flashing you won't be able to stop! After flashing maybe as many as 50 times now I have to say that the Galaxy is a very, very difficult phone to completely brick, flashing back to stock firmware normally sorts any problems out.

My worst situation was when I lost 3 button combo mode and couldn't get into download mode, got the gf's hairdryer out and warmed it up and it was back into download mode no worries. Since then I have made a jig incase it happens again.

My daily rom is spike oc rom, I still haven't found anything simpler or better and everything works. The kernel is oc'ed and incredibly stable. Having said that not all galaxy's run at 1.2 stable, I seem to be a lucky one, mine runs at 1.4, albeit not always stable, but it's fun just to see what it scores on quadrant!

I suppose it depends on your attitude, if I'm not fixing my phone or flashing a new rom then I'm not happy, personally I'd just flash whichever rom takes your fancy and see what happens, go with docs or spikes to begin with. I think there's a few themes for docs rom on his threads, have a play and see what you think.